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French troops have recovered the black box flight recorder from the Air
Algerié flight that crashed in the Sahara — and officials are not ruling out
terrorism.

“Terrrorist groups are in the zone... we know these groups are hostile to
western interests,” said Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister.
President Hollande said it was too soon to draw conclusions in an area that
has been hotly contested since French soldiers intervened in Mali in 2013.

“There are hypotheses, notably weather-related, but we don’t rule out anything
because we want to know what happened,” said Mr Hollande. Flight AH5017 came
down in